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...years after therapist Tera Abelson and cameraman Mark Wotton separated in 1992, they worked out creative doublenesting arrangements to enable both to continue living with their children. First, Tera moved into a tent in the backyard of their Massachusetts home. Later, she moved inside, and Mark slept in an enclosed porch. In 1995, after relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, they were able to afford a large house in which they had bedrooms on separate floors. Initially, the children--Zoe, then 3, and Noa, 4--were oblivious to the separation. "The fact that Mark and I were parenting partners...
...historic continuity. It does not parade in either a "traditional" or futuristic costume. As time goes by, the context keeps changing. That is why, as each new generation of designers must learn, even the best design does not seem to bring us closer to Utopia. But, as Sir Henry Wotton observed some 350 years ago, the best design gives us "commodity, firmness and delight...
...hospitable, welcoming both to art and to its audience, and condescending to no one. Neither snooty nor tackily populist, it is a lesson in civic good manners. "The aim of architecture is to build well. Well-building hath three conditions: commodity, firm ness and delight." Sir Henry Wotton's maxim is as true today as it was 350 years ago, and Pei's building reminds us that the sense of ethical and aesthetic responsibility from which it issued is not, after all, quite dead...
...never sure to what kind of patron he must sell himself. In Acle, Norfolk, for example, it is Brigadier Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe; in Parracombe, Devon it is the Misses Nind; Colonel Pine-Coffin picks the parson for St. Andrews Alwington, Devon; and Mrs. Power Clutterbuck holds sway in Ozleworth, Wotton-under-Edge. "The clergy," says the Rev. Lewis Roberts of Peasmarsh, "is the only profession without some trade union to help it improve its pay and condition...
...Attributed to James I's Ambassador to Venice Author-Diplomat Sir Henry Wotton. *From Tokyo, MacArthur put a prompt stop to a hopeful suggestion by the committee that he return to testify on the bill. Said MacArthur: "The heavy pressure of my duties renders it impracticable for me to leave my post here at the present time...